[Background / related]
Military voting scheme ‘concerning’: watchdog
Phnom Penh Post | 27 October 2016
An election watchdog yesterday announced it had uncovered plans to move registration stations
closer to military bases in Kampong Speu, Tbong [Tbaung] Khmum and Kampong Chhnang
provinces.
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| Military base. View from Kirirom orchard, Sept. 2016 |
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| Zoomed image of military base |
White strip in the middle is a sprawling military compound (image taken without zoom from orchard). There are many military compounds along National Road 4 from Phnom Penh to the sea at Sihanoukville, including the Eccc the Clown or what others called the Khmer Rouge Tribunal.
National Road 4 was built by the Americans during the Vietnam War to transport arms from the Gulf of Thailand.
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| How Vietnam "foil plots" (democratic elections) to keep its CPP puppet in power in its destruction of Cambodia |
Sam Rainsy video: ជន អន្តោប្រវេសន៍ វៀតណាម ចំណាយ តែ ២៥០,០០០៛ (ម្ភៃប្រាំម៉ឺន រៀល) តែប៉ុណ្ណោះ អាចប្ដូរ នូវប័ណ្ណ រស់នៅ អចិន្ដ្រៃយ៍ នៅកម្ពុជា បាន | Vietnamese nationals only need 250,000 riels ($62) to obtain permanent residency in Kampong Chhnang paid for by the Vietnamese Association
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Kampong Speu: Vietnamese military-age men in the mango orchard leasing business and the illegal Khmer ID card at 10,000 riels (USD 2.50 or two dollars and fifty cents) a piece
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"Comrade Tourists", "Comrade Merchants", "Comrade Soldiers" - examples from Kep, Kirirom in Kampong Speu [commentary by Ms. Theary C. Seng]
My
neighbors here in Kirirom are Vietnamese "mango merchants", mainly men
in their 30s, 40s and 50s. I'm told in "hundreds, if not thousands".
They are assisted by the district offices where they are given
accommodation. Others stay in the mango orchards. I've seen the empty
trucks in the day time. I'm told if I go to these district offices in
the morning around 6 am or so I can see them leave for the orchards and
return in the evening around 5 pm or so. Most speak Vietnamese with
hardly any speaking Khmer. They buy mangos very cheaply as they are
assisted by the higher authority; they only use chemicals brought in
from Vietnam, which according to the Cambodian locals are very
expensive. They transport the mangos via Takeo.
Then there are
the outright soldiers in their trucks without license plates. They are
ostentatiously here EVERY YEAR going to each orchard and looking for
"remains" of their soldiers from the Vietnam War and subsequent years.
Several military bases are located here in Kampong Speu.
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They are facilitated by the local
authority, both Khmer and Vietnamese -- Chea Sovan Tum / ជា សុវណ្ណទុម
is the Khmer name of local Treng Tayeung / Kirirom three-star
general who used to be part of the 180,000 Vietnamese occupation
military force of 1979-89 -- and the tycoon / okhna "I'm proud to be
Vietnamese" Sok Kong (of petroleum giant Sokimex; hotel giant Sokha
Resorts in Siem Reap, Phnom Penh, Sihanoukville, Bokor Mountain, Kirirom
Mountain etc.; Apsara Authority that oversees all fees to Aingkor
temples (cash only), etc.
Seen and heard on Ms. Theary C. Seng's Facebook accounts:
www.facebook.com/theary.c.seng
www.facebook.com/theary.c.seng
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